Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Well, I don't think any Labor person wants to be anywhere near to being a Tony, Senator Lambie, as you know. Most of us do remember the 2014 budget—I was here for that budget—and we remember the extent to which that Abbott government, despite telling the Australian people the contrary, cut health, cut funding for Indigenous affairs and cut funding for broadcasting. It was a horror budget. It was a budget which was full of betrayal, but perhaps I digress.

We respect our ADF personnel. We support our ADF personnel. We recognise the important role they play. We honour their service. We have put in place a pay offer which is assessed to be above inflation. We have put in place a retention bonus. I appreciate you are critical of that because we understand — (Time expired)